Chapter 042

People always grow unintentionally.

Cheng Shijie is the same, when he was Zuo Qianhu, he always rode in a car, not because he didn't want to ride a horse, but because his butt was too big and the saddle couldn't fit at all.

But during this period of time, Cheng Shijie has lost weight, although his stomach is still there, his double chin is gone, and his weight has been reduced to less than 200 pounds, but his figure is tall and he doesn't look so fat.

The most important thing is that when he was fat in the past, he would feel very tired when he traveled more than 200 miles from Dengzhou to Zuoqianhusuo, but now he doesn't feel tired anymore.

He took more than 2,000 military households, including military family members, a full 4,500 people, and he felt that he was the king of the mountain. To say that Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, is really bold enough.

said that the establishment of the Ning Navy did not send a supervising army, not even a bookkeeper, and completely handed it over to Cheng Shijie to deal with it with full authority.

It's just a pity that Sun Yuanhua was dealt with by the imperial court in a Wuqiao mutiny. In all fairness, the Wuqiao Mutiny made such a big fuss, and it really has little to do with Kong Youde, or whether the Dongjiang Army can fight, you must know that Kong Youde, Li Jiucheng, and Geng Zhongming are three generals, each with 800 soldiers.

And at the beginning, only Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde were killed, and the two of them together had less than 2,000 soldiers and horses, while the Shandong Commander could command more than 40,000 troops. As a result, Kong Youde's ministry fought more and more, in the final analysis, it was because the government forced the people to rebel.

Now Shandong is a situation of cooking oil on fire, and if you are not careful, the problem will be serious.

Song Kangnian didn't understand a little, there were already more than 10,000 people in the Thousand Households, why did he bring another four or five thousand people back? In addition to eating with thousands of more people, what advantage can Cheng Shijie take.

When Cheng Shijie failed in the first competition, the leader's evaluation of him was that the pattern was not big enough, and he didn't quite understand what the reason for this pattern was not big enough.

What is the big picture?

Later, he understood that as a person, you can't just stare at your own family's one-third of an acre, and when you think about problems, don't just think about your own gains and losses, this is called a pattern.

These poor military households are in Dengzhou City, they have eaten a meal or not, in order to survive, they will do everything possible to survive, when Kong Youde launched a rebellion, he waved his arms, these poor military households and homeless people, all from thieves. It is precisely because of the existence of these people that Kong Youde has a sufficient source of soldiers, and Kong Youde is becoming more and more courageous.

Taking away these four or five thousand people, although it cannot fundamentally solve Kong Youde's destruction of Shandong, can weaken Kong Youde's strength.

And these people can become Cheng Shijie's help.

"Lord Garrison, are you serious? No kidding? ”

Cheng Shijie nodded and said: "This garrison has said many times, as long as you arrive in Ninghai Prefecture, this garrison will give you a piece of land, so that you can live a good life like a landlord." ”

"We take it seriously!"

"It has to be taken seriously!"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "This garrison is not only to distribute your fields, our Ning Navy will set up a lot of factories in the future, you all have dividends, and you will not worry about food and drink in the future!" ”

"Really!"

"Don't worry, follow this guard, you will definitely not suffer!"

"Cheng Shoubei, does your words count?"

"Yes, of course! If this garrison's words don't count, let this garrison never lift it for life! ”

When they heard this, they burst into laughter.

These military families living at the bottom of the society are the most simple, they have the right appetite, they can even sell their lives to you, Cheng Shijie eats in the same pot with them, sleeps in the same tent, and has military merits there, which is naturally very popular.

However, he said that he would give everyone the promise of land and houses, and everyone did not believe it, and everyone was looking forward to going to Ninghai Prefecture as soon as possible, to Zuoqianhu, and to look good at his appearance.

Marching with these military households, Cheng Shijie's mood was quite pleasant.

Ninghai Prefecture is very desolate now, now there are only more than 16,000 households, more than 60,000 people, but in later generations this place has 6 or 7 million people.

This makes Cheng Shijie feel a little incredible, not counting the two counties of Muping County and Wendeng, Weihai City alone has a grain output of 590,000 tons, and now the grain output of Ninghai Prefecture is less than 100,000 stones, so it can be seen that the development here is only equivalent to more than 100,000 acres of land. It is only 1 in 600 of the generations to come.

When Cheng Shijie came to Zuoqianhu, these four or five thousand people did not enter the city, they were only temporarily arranged outside the city.

"Senho-sama!"

The enthusiastic military household saluted Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie nodded slightly, in response.

However, Cheng Shi and Cheng Hu immediately corrected: "Now my father-in-law is no longer a master of a thousand households, but a garrison adult!" ”

"Lord Garrison?"

The military households did not know that Cheng Shijie was no longer the Qianhu of Dengzhou Weizuo, but the garrison of the Ning Navy.

Cheng Shijie didn't have time to rest, and Zhou Yandong, the deputy thousand-household, reported to Cheng Shijie on the development of this time.

"Congratulations to Sennohe-sama"

Cheng Shi corrected: "The righteous father is not a thousand households now, but a garrison of the Ning Navy!" ”

"Congratulations to Lord Garrison, this is a double blessing!"

"Oh, what's the double happiness?"

"You let the subordinate take the craftsman to find the ore vein, and we will find two iron mines and a copper mine in the territory!" Zhou Yandong waved his hand and said, "Take it." ”

Cheng Shijie watched as two military households walked into the hall carrying a huge sack.

"Knock ......"

The sack was placed on the ground with a dull sound. Untied the sack, revealing a sack of black iron ore, Cheng Shijie picked up a piece of ore and looked at it over and over again. The tube ore is heavy, diamond-shaped, slightly shiny in the black lacquer, and it seems that the grade is not bad.

For metallurgical steelmaking, Cheng Shijie is a professional, and he can see that the quality of these iron ores is good, of course, much worse than the iron ore imported from Australia.

Zhou Yandong leaned over and said: "Lord Garrison, this ore is one of the best in the entire Dengzhou, and the quality of the iron smelted is excellent, and it can be easily beaten into fine iron, which will be very sought-after." ”

Cheng Shijie now almost understands the prices at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the special prices in the Ming Dynasty are very strange, and the very cheap things in later generations are ridiculously high in the Ming Dynasty. Just like this iron, iron was rarely used in later generations, and most of it was alloy steel. However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, a pound of iron required a penny of silver.

Let's put it this way, the value of five catties of iron is equal to 153.5 catties of rice, who dares to imagine this? It is equivalent to one pound of iron, which is equal to thirty pounds of seven taels of rice. Even if the cheapest rice is two pieces and five pounds, it is equivalent to seventy-six .75 yuan. That's almost thirty times as much as the generations to come.

As a technician of Hangang Group, Cheng Shijie can get in touch with the distribution of mineral resources in later generations, and he certainly knows that there are iron ores of quite good quality in Ninghai Prefecture.

"Has this iron ore been mined?"

"It's on!"

Zhou Yandong said: "You can mine at least five or six thousand stones of iron ore a year!" ”

"What?"

Cheng Shijie's eyes widened: "It's only so much in a year?" ”

"The veins are a bit complicated there, and there's too much mess!"

Zhou Yandong said: "In the future, the number of miners will increase, and the output can be increased a little more!" ”

Five or six thousand stones is almost eight or nine hundred thousand catties, which is about four hundred and fifty tons per ton, which is less than the output of a branch of Hangang Group in one hour. You must know that Hangang Group has a production capacity of 150 million tons, and 80% of the production capacity has been suspended, because there are not so many quotas.

Cheng Shijie said: "These production capacity is too low, increase production capacity, at least ten times expansion!" ”

Iron ore is not equal to iron, and it is not equal to steel. Of the four hundred and fifty tons of iron ore, only more than 200 tons of iron can be produced, which is even lower according to the technical level of the Ming Dynasty.

According to Zhou Yandong's meaning, steelmaking is too troublesome, so it is better to sell iron ore directly.

Cheng Shijie resolutely disagrees with this, it would be too wasteful to do so.

"Zhou Yandong, this matter is fully handed over to you to deal with, you can select craftsmen within our Qianhu Office, no, Ning Navy, ask for people-oriented garrison to give you people, ask for money to give you money, there is only one requirement, increase the production capacity!"

"Yes!"

"I'll give you another thousand!"

"What!"

"A thousand?"

"That's right!"

Cheng Shijie said: "You use 500 people to open iron mines, 300 people to make steel, 200 people to build weapons and armor, and 1,000 people may not be enough!" ”

"Xiaguan do his best!"

"It's not an effort, it's a certainty!"

Cheng Shijie stared at Zhou Yandong and said: "The miners' wages have doubled, we have to feed them, and if the food is not enough, you can buy it!" ”

Mining iron ore now is simply a million profits, if the miners' rations and wages are deducted, it is too inhumane, of course, this is not conducive to the development of iron ore.

Zhou Yandong also introduced to Cheng Shijie several newly opened factories, a kiln factory, which can produce porcelain, by the way, Ning Haijun also has a large number of kaolin resources, which is the raw material for firing porcelain. In later generations, Linyi, Zibo, Weifang and Weihai in Shandong were the main production areas for the production of ceramic tiles and ceramics.

Unconsciously, Cheng Shijie established a furniture factory in Zuoqianhu, seven kilns, which fired bricks, tiles and porcelain, a military uniform factory, a salt factory, and now two smaller iron mines and a copper mine.

Although the capacity of these factories is seriously insufficient, it is possible to increase the production capacity by increasing the number of people.

Just when Cheng Shijie watched Zhou Yandong report to him on the progress of the construction of thousands of houses and barracks, Yang Yunniang held a teapot and poured tea for Cheng Shijie and Zhou Yandong.

Zhou Yandong bowed down and said, "Thank you, madam!" ”

Yang Yunniang was stunned for a moment, and suddenly crimson flew up her cheeks, glanced at Cheng Shijie, and saw that he was also smiling on his face, and she was even more embarrassed.

Although he was embarrassed and shy, he still lowered his head and reminded in a whisper: "Lord Assistant...... The concubine is just a maid of the Cheng family. ”

"Uh......"

Zhou Yandong knew that he had made a mistake, but the question is, isn't this the first time? The first few times Cheng Shijie was away, he sent the accounts to a thousand houses, also known as Mrs. Yang Yunniang, but Yang Yunniang did not remind him.

Zhou Yandong smiled at Cheng Shijie: "Lord Garrison, the lower official ......"

"He who does not know is not guilty, and there is nothing!"

"I wonder if Master Cheng is single?"

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "Cheng has already married a wife, but he is just ......"

It is a pity that he has sons and daughters in the afterlife, but the problem is that they can't get by.

Zhou Yandong continued to report to work, but Yang Yunniang felt Cheng Shijie's eyes looking at her, her face turned even redder, her eyes didn't dare to look at Cheng Shijie anymore, and turned around and ran to the inner room.

By the way, Cheng Shijie is now serving as the garrison of the Ning Navy, and the Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu Office must be renamed.

Cheng Shijie's opinion is that it is straightforward, simple and trouble-free, so it is called Ninghai City.

Don't look at Ninghai Prefecture, there is a state rule, but it shares a city with Muping County, and it seems that there is no problem with calling Ninghai City.

After arranging the planning of the factory and development, Cheng Shijie began to recruit soldiers, and prepared to expand the army based on his more than 500 family soldiers.

There are more than 14,000 military households in Zuo Qianhu, plus 4,500 newly recruited, almost 20,000 people are smaller, and selecting 2,000 people out of 20,000 people can be regarded as one out of ten.

The work of selecting the source of soldiers was handed over to Shen Mingyu.

Shen Mingyu first used a bamboo pole to stand on the school field, and his height was brushed off at the first level, and then it was endurance, Cheng Shijie's family soldiers were well treated, and many people were willing to become his family soldiers, the key was that it was too difficult to be Cheng Shijie's family soldiers.

Watching so many people get brushed off one after another.

A military household sighed: "Is this a provocation? This is more difficult than commanding the adults to choose a son-in-law! ”

"No, it's not so difficult for the commander to choose a son-in-law, I heard that who is the son-in-law of the commander, he looks crooked and cracked......"

All military households deeply feel the same way, it is too difficult to become Cheng Shijie's family soldier.

Cheng Shijie's principle is that it is better to have less than to overuse.